The view from our layover at the Salt Lake City airport could have been worse.

And we're off! Our original plan to leave Wednesday got stymied by bad weather in Atlanta, and the snow in DC Thursday morning had us worried again, but it ended up being no problem. We made it out of DC and into Salt Lake City, where we had a long (9 hours!) but uneventful layover before getting into Reno late that night.

It was a whirlwind few days getting ready to leave. After much packing, trips to UPS and Goodwill, and approximately 2.1 million emails back and forth with Craigslist buyers, we found time to take a break Tuesday afternoon and went to Ben's Chili Bowl for some lunch (my first time to this DC institution) and to the National Gallery of Art for a quick visit.

We spent Friday unpacking, figuring out what will stay in storage and what will go with us in the car, and habituating Jax to Cristina's parents' house here in Reno, where we'll be for the next few days getting plans together before heading down to the Bay Area to see more family and make final preparations.

I'm excited to get to see a bit of the place Cristina grew up too! We're going to meet up with some of Cristina's friends tonight downtown and I will, of course, also make sure to spend just a wee bit of time in a casino.

P.S. Happy to report it's snowing this AM in Reno - we need the precipitation here in the drought-ridden west!

Jax happy in a windowsill.

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